Review ~ Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and David Levithan’s collaborative novel is brimming with a double helping of the heart and humor that have won both of them legions of faithful fans.

This was an amazing book with such a feel good story. Two Will Graysons tell their stories and their lives cross. Even though they do not interact very much throughout the story, they make an impact on each other through their friends. The subject matter: homosexuality and depression and love and need. It was so beautifully and amazingly done that I laughed, cried, and had so many feels.

Here’s the thing that I’ve learned from reading John Green’s books: he deals with tough subject matter but at the end the reader is left feeling hopeful. He doesn’t try to magically fix everything and want to make everyone feel so perfectly happy, but he does let us know that the characters have come to some sort of epiphany and growth that things can seem okay even if everything has fallen apart. And to me that’s realistic, that’s real life, and I love the feeling I get when I read the last words of his stories.